Audio help, tips, and techniques

Permalinks

Whenever you refer to files at archive.org, use our permalink-style form for the file within the item. It is of the form
http://archive.org/download/IDENTIFIER/FILE

Good:

http://archive.org/download/etree/lma.jpg
Great job! If we ever move your item around on our servers or migrate our storage system, you're covered for life!

Bad:

http://ia700202.us.archive.org/17/items/etree/lma.jpg
Uh-oh! If we ever move your item around on our servers or migrate our storage system, this link breaks! It may have even broken since this was authored! 8-)

Audio embedding

This allows you to setup an audio player that serves an item from archive.org on another site like a wordrpess, blog, or website.
NOTE: We've tested EMBED on tumblr.com, boingboing.net, blogspot.com blogs, and self-hosted Wordpress blogs. This feature will NOT work on wordpress.com blogs.

Feature notes:

• Playlists
  As of mid-January 2012, we support playlists! (see below)

How to embed and options:

• Example full embed code:
  
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• You can see our new permalink-style embed codes with our new audio player. Find the player's "controlbar" (where the play/pause, seeking, time, etc. are located).
  Now look for the Internet Archive logo (looks like:
  
  ) in the "controlbar" and click it for the iframe-based embed code and the linked image "Embedding Tips & Help" (to a page with other examples).
  Some sample ways to customize the behaviour of the "embed" urls, used within the embed code above, follow.
• Embeds an audio item.
  If the item contains 2+ playable uploaded files, this embeds all of the files within the item by default, sorted "naturally" (mostly alphabetically, via our backend PHP code):
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• Embed audio with "autoplay":
  
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• Embed audio with clickable "playlist":
  
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• Embed audio with clickable "playlist" *and* "autoplay":
  
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• Embed a single specific audio file for item with 2+ audio files:
  Notice you use the name of the "original" audio file that was uploaded (and we figure out what additional formats we were able to transcode/"derive" from and then figure out what the audio player can handle).
  
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